Memorial Honors Beloved Mission High Teacher

More than 100 members of the Mission High community gathered Monday afternoon to honor Kathleen Cecil, an English teacher they remembered as dedicated, sarcastic and brutally honest.

Cecil suffered a brain aneurysm during her third period class on the first day of school. She remained on life support and died two days later. She would have turned 62 years old next month and had taught atMission High for 12 years. A couple of students at the memorial said they remembered Cecil standing at the door of her classroom on the first day of school. Others recounted the Cecilisims they heard from her as students.

“So should I write the referral, or should you?” was one of what students called Cecilisims that they wrote on posters for

the memorial held in the school auditorium. “It’s only high school. Life goes on,” wrote another student remembering a Cecilism on the sheets that line Mission High’s hallways.

“She was passionate about teaching. She created lesson plans every day as if it were her first day of teaching,” said Principal Eric Guthertz.

Tom Wishing, Cecil’s husband, agreed. “Days at Mission didn’t end at the end of the school day. She took students home with her in her heart.” READ MORE HERE.